[RACHGIER]

-9° at wakeup, -6° right now, averaging -30° with the wind. We only picked up another 3" of snow last night.

 

[ajole]

We hit 45 degrees Wednesday afternoon, despite being 4 degrees F at 7 AM. Then that night the wind picked up and temps dropped back down to single digits. Got back up to 35 today, but back down to single digits again.

I drove to town for some last minute shopping. Some guy in a Nissan pickup was upside down off the road, looked like he tried to pass a semi going up a hill, and spun out in the packed snow of the passing lane.
Then on the way home, some tanker truck was parked on the other side of the road putting out hazard markers…100 yards later, his pup was laying in the ditch. Flat straight road…my guess is he got it too close to the edge and the slush sucked his trailer off the side. Lucky it didn’t take him along for the ride.

 

[adam01364]

Meanwhile, Floridians are breaking out their thermal undies and goose down parkas:

Sweetie's pulling in all her potted plants to protect them, and she'll be covering some of the temperature-sensitive shrubs. I'm like "plant hardier plants!!" which isn't going down too well. <shrug>

 

[TNTRAILERTRASH]

8:30am. I slept good. -3* right now. 60 in the bedroom, 70 in the kitchen.

 

[RACHGIER]

Meanwhile, Floridians are breaking out their thermal undies and goose down parkas:
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Sweetie's pulling in all her potted plants to protect them, and she'll be covering some of the temperature-sensitive shrubs. I'm like "plant hardier plants!!" which isn't going down too well. <shrug>

Texas called me in a panic because she didn't know whether to use hot or cold air to defrost her windows because she had been sitting there for 10 minutes and it was getting worse. Lol

 

[Pistolkitty]

Last 48 hours ranged from 4° to 11°. Heat wave this morning at 13. Been keeping the water trickling so we don't freeze up and have to mess with water out of jugs- which is doable but a pain in the ass. Woke up this morning to the water off, and wrappers, crumbs, food everywhere, Ramen noodles in my dish drainer. So my 13 year old spent her first morning of Christmas vacation being woken up before dawn breaks to clean up after herself and get another lecture on the water.

 

[Rerun]

Tuff night outside in the wind!

Gusts to 25 mph, steady 15 mph.

It got down to 16°F.

I felt every bit of it.

Rerun

 

[lklawson]

Bah!

They issued a Level II snow emergency, WPAFB closed today (sending me to telework; gads! but I miss "snow days"), and every idiot mobbed the grocery stores for water bottles and TP.

As far as I can tell, it's mostly a nothing-burger. The snow is light and powdery because of the temp (currently -5 outside my window), and the roads are icy but that's about it. We did have someone who lost control on the I-70 and died, causing the freeway to be shutdown, but that happens at least once every winter, regardless of "snow emergency.

I spend probably 30 min. shoveling the powder from my driveway but it'll probably drift back about 1/3 by tomorrow.

I remember when a snow-pocalypse really WAS one.

Feh!

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[MaryB]

-36 wind chill, actually warmed up from -15 when I went to bed last night, now -7. Winds gusting to 50mph so total whiteout at times/can't see my neighbors house 100' away during gusts. Southern 1/4 of MN is closed(draw a line west form MPLS and south of that, closed!). Go around a road barricade and need rescue and a $2500++ fine plus cost of the rescue to send out the tracked personnel carrier then dig out and tow your car when they start to reopen the roads. They got nasty about it during 96/97 when to many first responders were injured trying to rescue idiots who would go around the barricades. They closed the road twice after I was out on it, that is freaky to know you are in no mans land you may not get rescued until the winds drop and plows go back out... never got stuck, came close once when a semi lost it. Saw the trailer coming into my lane so I took the shoulder and launched it off a rock hard drift. 70 GMC Jimmy full time 4wd beast with 33" tires so I bounced when I came down(tires were aired down some for better traction) and was lucky it threw me back onto the road.

 

[moona11]

-33 beautiful day out.

 

[MaryB]

up to 1! Wind dying down... saw a mid 30 n the 7 day forecast, believe that when it happens. Once we get this much snow on the ground it doesn't warm up that easy. Not like when we have bare dirt exposed in the fields.

 

[greg_r]

It’s just freaking cold.

 

[Pistolkitty]

Up to 33 here! Had freezing rain last night. Calling for rain all week here in the valley, snow up at the property.

 

[backbencher]

Dripping the outside faucets, will drip the kitchen sink next to the window when I go to bed. The front faucet has built up quite an icicle. Will be freezing again in an hour or two.

 

[TNTRAILERTRASH]

Dripping the outside faucets, will drip the kitchen sink next to the window when I go to bed. The front faucet has built up quite an icicle. Will be freezing again in an hour or two.

If the outside faucets are freeze less hydrants dripping them may harm them.

 

[moona11]

If the outside faucets are freeze less hydrants dripping them may harm them.

I don't even cover mine

 

[TNTRAILERTRASH]

I don't even cover mine

We didn't have them back in Ohio when I was a kid. We never covered them. Never had a problem.

 

[backbencher]

If the outside faucets are freeze less hydrants dripping them may harm them.

My MIL is the only one I know w/ a freeze-less faucet. So in the big freeze 2 years ago, her sewer line froze instead & backed up in the back half of the house.

 

[Rerun]

Third night in a row with sub freezing temps - with zero precipitation - it's a 'dry' cold.

Rerun

 

[moona11]

Third night in a row with sub freezing temps - with zero precipitation - it's a 'dry' cold.

Rerun

Thats better than wet cold.